Celebrities React After School Shooting Leaves 27 Dead (UPDATED)

Celebrities are taking to Twitter to the mourn the lives lost in Friday’s horrific massacre at a Connecticut school. Reports say that 27 people, including 20 children, were killed in the shooting at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. As facts about the tragedy continue to emerge, stars on Twitter are struggling to understand this senseless act.

Here’s what they are saying:

Rihanna: God have mercy!!!! No one deserves this! Praying for the families of the victims of the Connecticut shooting!! What a Christmas it will be

Justin Bieber: heard about what happened in CT, my prayers go out to all those suffering in this tragedy. it’ss just wrong. Everyone please pray for them.

Miley Cyrus: Why does this happen? Why do bad things happen to such good people… Especially young ones. Sending blessings to CT.